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Obama's human rights record is abysmal. Sure he did a lot of good things too, but not closing Guantanamo, ramping up drone strikes etc negate all of that good. I've written him a couple of letters with all of this in detail to which he has yet to respond (no surprise). Instead he's doing voice over work for shitty documentaries on Netflix.
Obama hasn't been president for nearly a decade.
And there are a lot of things to criticize him about, but he legitimately tried to close Guantanamo, and was blocked by Republicans (and possibly some Democrats?) over and over.
Bernie Sanders voted against Obama's attempt to "close Guantanamo," because all he wanted to do was close the specific location while keeping the prisoners and practices going in other locations, possibly on US soil which would've provided firmer legal precedent for it.
When trying to hold your leaders to a higher standard gets you downvotes. Classic.
The downvotes are for the whataboutism
I don't disagree. But holding both sides of the aisle to a certain standard doesn't have to be whataboutism, though. It's possible to look at government's behavior as a whole without deflecting in the name of your particular side.
In this case though, it's a community note on xitter, so it's definitely there as whataboutism
Sounds like you are on crack, and happy about it.
For the modlog, the comment is made by a user named crackhappy. Also, hi, downvote brigade.
Lol.
Yeah Obama hasn't written me back either!
wtf
You must be so happy that your sitting president is such a humanitarian.
This may come as a surprise for you but you can be against something or someone without being for something or someone else.
Ooh, are you protesting what-aboutism on a what-about reply? Seems a tad bigoted, no?
When a cheap shot is so bad it doesn't even have a connection.
"Some facts about Obama."
"You must like Trump!"
It's their Pavlovian conditioning.
It's either this or something like "Vlad" "russian disinfo".
They really don't like it when someone accurately explains their side is equally part of the war machine.
I just think they're obsessed. Everything's gotta be about Trump.
Probably hides a photo of him under their pillow for those moments no one's looking.
It's protesting what-aboutism, already disconnected from the topic.
Did you know that right leaning voters lack empathy for others, whereas left leaning voters understand both sides of the arguments?
Why are you protesting? It's just accurately explaining the political divide.
What of any of that has to do with anything that's been said by anyone? What the fuck are you smoking? Are you hallucinating words and trying to communicate back?
your incoherent off-topic rambling word salad is all over the place.